Me too! I'll watch ANY movie starring Johnny Depp - eye candy!

Fortunately, I don't have a jealous husband anymore. He'll buy me magazines whenever he's on the cover.

One morning we got up before dawn and headed over to the Lake to watch the sunrise. We had a wonderful morning together. We get home, turn on the TV and see JFK Jrs plane is missing.

When it was discovered he died, I told my husband "I'll bet you had something to do with this." I used to tease him that JFK Jr was the only man I'd ever leave him for.

He tried to make up for it by burying me in JFK photographs for weeks.

"Cry Baby" really is a good movie, if you're into musicals.

I asked them nicely to please remove my name, or the word banned next to my name or delete the post "at the request of the author". They did it.

Let me rephrase it. They changed MY name to something like "Malarkey" or
"what-cha-ma-callit" .......honestly, I can't remember what name they plugged in, but they did it.

I told them I used the same ID in other forums and I considered it defamation of character to put "Banned" next to my name without saying why I was banned.
I also emailed some other people who may have asked them nicely to do it.

Regardless, I think putting "Banned" next to a person's name without explaining why they are banned is rude and potentially libelous. Lord knows we have an attorney behind every tree out here. Most are good, decent people, a few aren't.

This thread cracked me up! I just started posting over there to help a friend get correct information to a person after someone posted something silly (incorrect) after her post... she has been booted twice. The rules of no urls only mean too that verification is so hard - I wanted to show that the information posted was incorrect but noooooooo, you cannot post a pubmed link to show good information either! And some poor girl in another thread needed salt tablets (we addison people need salt while everyone else avoids it) and I could not tell her how to get them...
I am waiting to be banned as well...
They are nuts over there and people post only slightly accurate things... wish the mods would go after that!

Yikes Rumpled

I hope you're not sweating over this. Wouldn't want you to bleed any salt for trying to help a person find salt. Borrowing salt from a neighbor should be easy - like a click of a mouse.

I know some groups have good intentions, but illness itself isn't a classroom. We lie in bed, puke our guts out, blow our noses, scream in pain, and cry in fear. That's why we stay home from school.

We should behave ourselves and not overwhelm our fellow sickies, but we shouldn't have to follow strict classroom rules during our home confinement. We should be able to chew gum and pass notes to each other if we feel well enough to do so. We should be able to cry on each other's shoulders when we feel the need to. We should even be allowed to spit in the bucket when necessary, as long as we're mindful of our neighbors and we shoot as straight as possible (no personal attacks).

If we stray off topic, oh well. The OP can always add more flowers to the mix if they want to say anything further on the original subject. Have you ever tried to hold a serious conversation during a very high fever? It's almost impossible to keep focused. Once the fever passes, there's no rule saying you can't resume the conversation.

Are you kidding?!?!?!!!! That is so childish! Who the heck are these people? Some kind of Jr. High internet class?

That is ridiculous!

Hi,
I am new here and this is my first post. I too was one of the "victims" of a banning at the site healthboards.com. I have absolutely no idea why either. As far as I know, I did not post anything which violated any of their seemingly hundreds of rules! Well, maybe not that many, but jeez. I am a nail tech by trade, and I did make a post which referred to the word "eponychium", which is a medical term that describes what is essentially the fold of skin on the proximal end of your fingernail. Its what most people refer to as your cuticle. Now get this. WHen I previewed the post, the word have been modified with the use of astericks, so now it appeared as "epony****m" I made a comment at the end of my post stating what I had just found and that I could not figure out for the life of me why that was happening. Then I submitted the post. Maybe for some screwy reason, their Nazi-like automated censoring software or whatever its called didn't like my word, or more specifically, part of it. Go figure, the only parts that were astericked out were "chiu". Now, I am seriously baffled. I never was good at word games, so maybe one of you can help this clueless girl out a bit:-) WHat curse, or otherwise "bad" word contains the letters "chiu"??? I can not think of anything, but that really does not surprise me! Then I posted a message on, I don't know which one, but a forum where registration problems are dealt with and the mods deal with answering them - if you call it that - and posed the same question to them, why? This is a standard medical term which can be found in any medical dictionary in publication, and its the proper term in describing that particular portion of the fingernail. I'm sooo baffled. I won't drag this on much longer, I promise (need to vent because it just happened to me less than 6 hours or so ago!), but I'm guessing that is the reason why I was banned. I did not find out until the next time I tried to login and got a message that only stated "your account has been suspended. Reason: Inappropriate posts" or something like that. I'm paraphrasing it. It said I could appeal it, so I immediately did. And I have to admit that I was a bit ticked off at the time, so I really doubt that I will be let back on the board considering the content of my reply, err, appeal, to their suspending me. I really gave them a piece of mind. Seriously, I did. I was NOT nice about it in the least bit. I didn't threaten, as they do, I just laid the facts out, and threw in a bit of personal opinion as well. They probably won't like the fact that I wasn't courteous to them. If you have ever seen it on their site, it specifies that when communicating with them, you must do so "respectfully", but its OK if they talk to people like they are trash. I have not heard back from them, and may not ever hear from them, but I won't be crying over it. The whole thing of banning for reasons unknown is just absurd. And to think that you can appeal the ban - read: kiss their butt and beg for forgiveness - is just outrageous, IMHO.
OK, nuff said about that. I rambled long enough! I just needed to vent and I feel better already! Thanks for listening. I hope I don't get banned from this site! That is the very first time it has ever happened to me and I am still stunned. I'll get over it by later today though. They are NOT that big of a deal. Total Nazi's though. As I called them in my "appeal", control freaks, and more I must admit. But I hope to become active here soon. BTW, I had only like 10 posts, and I looked, and they had deleted every single one of them! Not the allagedly "Inappropriate" one(s), but ALL of them. How sad. I picture it as them being made to feel almighty in their position of moderator, but its only on there, and outside of it, it doesn't mean a thing. Maybe they are just basically the type of insecure people who, given something like a moderator position at some junky site like theirs, can feel better about themselves, or something like that.
Thanks for listening.
Talk to ya soon :-)

well...give us a try rach.

i'm sorry you got treated that way on another board, but i'm glad you found us. welcome.

Thank you, Rach. That was a funny story, even if you had to suffer!

You go to their site asking to know more about "chiu." They quickly remove your chiu and replace it with stars - then ban you for chewing them out. Must be one of dem star spangled banner sites, huh?

Did you ever find the answer to your question on how to keep from chewing off the fingers of others?

Has anyone ever found out who the moderators are over there? They seem to hide behind an iron wall! As I stated before, I sent them a simple request and never even got the courtesy of a reply. I have my suspicions why, but obviously will never know. How can they call themselves "healthboards" if you cannot discuss health issues without being sensored! Oh I know, they have their own ideas of what information YOU should get, and it obviously isn't the truth! LOL!

Cheryl

They probably don't want to get sick - they'd rather wear a mask and keep all you sickies at a safe distance.